Hi Friends.. CCleaner Wipe Free Space?

Question

Please let me know what and how does the Ccleaner Wipe Free Space work? Does it delete the file that were already deleted from my computer and that were recoverable? or will it also delete the existing files too?.. I tried to do Wipe free space in Ccleaner. but when the cleaner was cleaning, i checked my computer and moved the cursor to the drives, it shows very less disk free space.
For example, before i run the cleaner, my "C" drive showed 18 gb space. But during the course of cleaning it showed 3.7 gb. So, i canceled the cleaning. 
I want more space in my PC. But i fear, if this may delete the existing file.
Please let me know what can i do in this regard.. Thank you.....

Gopan M · Accepted Answer

Actually the clean does make use of the hard disk space temporarily, but it will not delete overwrite existing files, so go ahead and run the cleaner. For some reason it needs more space, it will quit automatically. In my experience, running the hard disk's defragmentation first, followed by wipe free space in ccleaner will yield better results.

James S · Answer

Just run the cleaning man. Free programs like this can make mistakes with figuring out how much memory you have left.
As long as you've made sure that it's not deleting anything important to you, then you're fine.

Anonymous · Answer

A hardisk, in windows file system is fulled with HEX information, so it you might think your system has deleted a file, but the info is still written in the HD, so the wipe disk will fill that deleted things that dont exist in windows with 0's

George · Answer

Ccleaner will not delete any important files to you so just clean it.

Moses · Answer

i must tell u that ccleaner does its job the way it should do .....and it doesnt delete personal files....
it only deletes temp files

u probably have a largley bloated system ......ignore everything and clean

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